Peer Specialist

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Peer Specialist, you will provide invaluable support, encouragement, and guidance to individuals drawing upon your own lived experience with mental health or substance use challenges. Every day you will engage with individuals through active listening, sharing your recovery journey, and offering practical strategies for managing challenges and achieving personal goals. To be successful in this role, you must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills, a deep sense of empathy and compassion, and a demonstrated commitment to your own recovery.

• Experience in coping with life events successfully despite having a mental health challenge.
• Help individuals in setting and achieving their own goals.
• Maintain high standards of personal conduct. Teach and role model the value of every individual’s recovery experience. Conduct self in a manner that fosters one's own recovery. Share with consumers and colleagues personal recovery stories from mental health challenges. Be able to identify and describe the supports that promote recovery.
• Respect the confidentiality, rights, and dignity of the individuals served at all times.
• Serve as an advocate for patients through support of recovery based services, assisting individuals in making their own decisions in all matters when dealing with other professionals, and develop empowerment skills through self-advocacy and stigma-busting.
• Advocate for the full integration of individuals in the community of their choice and promote the inherent value of these individuals to those communities guided by the principle that individuals have the right to live in the least restrictive environment.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Graduate or GED., upon hire and
• Must have experience with own personal mental health challenges.

Preferred

• Experience as a Peer Support Specialist or working in a Psychiatric or Human Services setting

Where You’ll Work

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S., from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services, CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources, CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities, advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable, and innovating how and where healing can happen, both inside our hospitals and out in the community.